Be patient. Your voice will find its way into the world, not in one loud instance but a steady trickle that turns into a deluge.
LANG LEAVThat night, we talked the way old friends do, with candor and ease.
More Lang Leav Quotes
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To love is a dare, when hope and despair, are gates upon it hinges.
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Here’s to those who wish us well, and the rest can go to hell!
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I want you to remember my lips beneath your fingers and how you told me things you never told another soul. I want you to know that I have kept sacred, everything you had entrusted in me and I always will.
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People who are prone to sadness are more likely to pick up a pen.
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In her eyes, the sadness sings-of one who was destined, for better things.
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I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.
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The distance from you is measured in how far I’ve come.
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Who you love and who loves you back determines so much in your life.
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There are things we sacrifice for love, that we willingly give. But no one who loves you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing.
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You only get one chance to fall in love with your heart still whole.
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Because sooner or later, all kinds of love – crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.
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If you love my heart and mind, then you would love me, for all that I’m. But if you don’t love my every flaw, then you mustn’t love me- not at all.
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It was words that I fell for. In the end, it was words that broke my heart.
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You said my sadness was like the sun, beautiful from a distance but it hurt you too much to come closer.
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The memory of you is fading, a little at a time, and I can feel myself forgetting.
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Most people want to save the entire world. It’s a lovely thought, and I’m not saying it’s not a noble pursuit-but it’s impossible to save everyone. You just have to pick your little corner of the world and focus your energy there. That’s the only way you will ever make a difference.
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I missed you today. Between waking and sleeping, I thought of you.
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Our love story comes to me in waves, in movie stills and long summer afternoons spent under a sky of incessant blue. I still think of your eyes in flashes of color, your hands in a frenetic, feverish blur-your smile a mosaic of light and shadow. I still find myself lost in those moments of abstraction.
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How do I thank my mother for giving me the life she desperately wanted to give herself.
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But when I look at you, I just know instinctively, that despite the odds against you and although life will always find a way to test you, someday you’ll have everything you want. Your ending will be a happy one.
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We number our days and divide our seasons. We endlessly define what it is to be in love. When in truth, spring blurs into summer and always has, long before that line was ever drawn.
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I don’t think all writers are sad, she said. I think it’s the other way around- all sad people write.
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We spoke once about lovers who kept finding each other, no matter how many times the world came between them. And I think I had to break your heart, and you had to break mine. How else could we know the worth of what we were given?
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Give me something I can write about.
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In many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time.
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Isn’t it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.
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